Food Chains opens at the break of dawn, as tomato pickers in Immokalee, Florida, hustle onto buses and out to the fields where they spend long hours trying to pick enough fruit to survive. Late in the evening they return to cramped trailers...

In spite of the treaties, in spite of solemn exchanges of land for promises of food, health, education and security, the federal government considers keeping these promises a matter of "discretionary" spending.

Though wrapped in a "farmer-friendly" package, this Monsanto-driven rider is simply a biotech industry ploy to continue to plant GE crops even when a court of law has found they were approved illegally.

As Washington careens through one headline-grabbing, self-imposed fiscal crisis after another, one in 3 Americans faces a daily crisis of poverty or low-wage jobs that is barely a topic of conversation in Congress or the media
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